Multilevel selection in models of prebiotic evolution II: A direct comparison of compartmentalization and spatial self-organization

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Takeuchi, Nobuto ^a   Hogeweg, Paulien ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DYNAMICS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; FOLDINGS; LEVEL SELECTION; MESOSCOPICS; MULTI-LEVEL SELECTION; PREBIOTIC EVOLUTION; REPLICATORS; SELECTION MECHANISM; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; PARASITE; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA REPLICATION; SIMULATION; SYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EVOLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 73449144509     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000542     Document Type: Article

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